Also, has not enough carriages, so journey will probably be cramped…
Hmm. Maybe ICE deserves to be in Nuremberg right now
It certainly should be here by now.
But I still value the work ethics of the ICE personal very much.
It’s not their fault that their employer isn’t able to coordinate procedures efficiently…
Indeed, the lack of spending on the rail infrastructure in the last few decades has probably more to do with politics (cough cough car lobby cough cough) than the Deutsche Bahn’s personal. I always like how the personal has a humorous and chill way of announcing the delays.
Internal Combustion Engine? Maybe you should try the train.
Honestly, all countries should handover train management to Japan.
Or the Swiss.
I don’t trust their ‘neutrality’
Indeed! For example, the Tōkaidō high speed line between Tokyo and Osaka runs almost 400 trains every day with an average delay of about 12 seconds 🤯
Bear in mind that this is just the high speed service (Shinkansen). There is also a parallel line for local trains.
As a foreigner, ICE was so great a decade ago when I went to Germany regularly. What happened to destroy this beacon of fine travel?
What happened […]?
The long term effects of privatization and decades of car centric politics.
That sucks. I saw the DB as a model of envy.
The DB was great (albeit a little bureaucratic), while it still was the Bundesbahn, a public institution, run by public servants like every other government office. But when they became the DB AG, a shares based for profit company (still held by 100% by the government), they became a shitshow, because now their mission of providing reliable public transportation changed to making maximum profit and paying their C-suite (typically former politicians or their buddies) ever increasing bonuses for doing fuck all or even less than that.
That’s the way many German public institutions went thanks to rampant privatisation caused by all mainstream parties adopting the neoliberal agenda. They are now a shadow of their former self, delivering sub par service for outrageous prices while making a few individuals very rich.
Sad, but unsurprising, that right-wing grift is universal.
Sadly a thing of the past…
Return voyage working out much better, so l am happy again! :-)
Bro be happy it was only 30 mins. I have travelled with db to munich once. It got delayed 2 hours to munich and then 2 hours back as well. Always take flixbus if going to munich from west side
At least it arrives. Not like in Siegburg/Bonn where they just pass through if they are late.
Wow, that must be the most frustrating feeling ever.
“Your halt has been canceled today…”I went there for my train, and there was a large amount of people waiting for the late previous ICE. Suddenly, the display showing the late train switched to the train I was waiting for, and a moment later, an ICE rushed through on the center track.
I’ve rarely seen a more pissed off group of people.
In Italy, our train system is notorious for being always late… They actually celebrate when they are on time, no joke
Celebrating sounds very Italian… We Germans just share some sarcastic comments with our fellow travellers. :-)
Read up on your passenger rights! With more than 20mins (projected) delay, your “Zugbindung” ends and you can take any other ICE to your destination. If your delay is more than an hour, you get a 25% refund, if it’s over 2 hours the refund is 50%. If you miss any following trains, need to take a taxi or need to stay in a hotel because of the delay, DB will refund you the cost of that as well. You’re also entitled to a free drink in the train at some point, I don’t know the specifics of that off the top of my head though
This is solid advice, although in my case it has been a ticket without Zugbindung, as it has been for a work trip.
I got reimbursed 25% one time last year, but had several trips where the delay annoyingly just stayed a few minutes below the magic 1hr mark. :-)
The other day I was supposed to take an ICE, which was canceled, and all the next ones as well for that day. So they had replacement buses. 4 per train… which means that when i arrived at 11.30 for my “train-bus” replacement, the 4 buses that left were from the 9.30 slot. By the time the buses for the 10.30 slot arrived, there were people from the 12.30 train there. You can imagine I gave up and did not go.
You can imagine I gave up and did not go.
Not an option for me, mandatory appointment.
But something similar happened for as with your buses, but fortunately in a good way:
The preceding ICE was even more delayed, so I was able to catch that one instead. :-)
The virgin DB ICE vs the gigachad ÖBB Railjet.
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Come on, if you were in Minneapolis, you’d be happy about that.
Ok, ok, I’ll let myself out.
German qfality The downfall of germany should be studied. Ice are cool, sad it’s shit like anything in that country anymore
